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Monday, August 17, 2009

J'adore Les Cupcakes!

J'adore les cupcakes sounds so...well, FRENCH!

I was the "picky eater" in the family. I refused to eat cake, including birthday cake and CUPCAKES!I mostly played with my food, lining things up in rows, making designs etc. How I wish I was still a "picky eater" :( The French really do adore the American cupcake. Look at these unique cupcake/cones from Helene of Tartelette!Helene took this beautiful photo.I found this interesting 2-layer birthday cupcake from Robyn of The Girl who Ate Everything.I love the anatomical view Robyn took of her own birthday cupcake I'm not the world's biggest cupcake eater, But when ParisBreakfasts reader, Paige L. wrote me, You don't like cupcakes? But they're cakes made for one! You can put them on little pedestals with glass domes...And, they can sit out in view all day without going stale, so the anticipation builds. They're art! So I had to go out and get a CUPCAKE for Gawd's sake...and paint it... Just around the corner IL BAMBINO has CUPCAKE ARTon their walls.Plus trays and trays full of CUPCAKES.I think I may be fonder of the Crayola birthday candles than actuallyeating cupcakes.I must admit they are fun to paint :)

J'adore les cupcakes too! Too bad that they are kind of hard to find here in Paris. Macarons are all over but where are the cupcakes!?! Ceci dit, I have read that there are a couple of cupcake "boulangeries" here now, but havent't been there yet... Nice post!

I concur with your other reader. There is thing of perfection about a cupcake.

A cake? Well, it is so obvious. So large and clumsy at times. But a cupcake? Just childlike enough to be fun! fun! fun! But dainty enough for a grownup of aesthetic sensibilities to both appreciate and enjoy. And, there is something else that I am having trouble explaining ... but perhaps it's a little like a Victorian miniature silhouette hanging from a fine, gold chain: one admires it even if one is not inclined to wear it around one's own neck. Reminiscent of a time. A pleasant reminder.

The cupcake craze must be about over....I hope. Too much icing in ratio to cake, me thinks.The only one I really like is the black bottom cup cake that has NO icing. Moist with bits of chocolate in the center. Yumanni

Carol,This is an old post of Richard Nahum's (who's taking a vacation from blogging because it's August.) Perfect for today's cupcake theme!http://www.ipreferparis.net/2009/08/best-of-2009-sweet-week-berko.html

As another (regretfully) reformed picky eater, I still detest the frosting on cupcakes, but the cake! Ah the cake! Frankly, IMHO you must have chosen a bad cupcake...all those gritty sprinkles and that horrid frosting...I did claim to be reformed, didn't I?